My half of the art trade for Sandal Crusader. AND LAST TRADE! All done

She asked for Rahm Kota and his apprentice (her creation, not Galen Malek!). Using the source image she gave me of the apprentice, I did the best I could to figure out a scenario to have them together. I put them both in Clone armor, and stuck them in a forest. They're being tracked down by Black Sun, for some reason! I'm actually not sure if her apprentice's story takes place before or after the Clone Wars, so this was a guessed possible scenario!

I tried to link the two together. I replicated the phoenix-looking tattoo on her apprentice's shoulders onto the armor of both Kota and the apprentice. I also tried to keep the color schemes for both, as if they'd dress similarly. They're both wearing similar armor/cloaks. Also, Kota's protecting an injured clone...maybe this is the reason he finds clones inferior to people!

Anyway, I had a lot of fun with this one. I have my own nitpicks but all in all, I really enjoyed this one, especially drawing Kota. Was a blast! I hope she digs!

Uhh, why there is a clone trooper next to Kota? I thought that he fought with a militia because of his distrust toward clone troopers. And that was mentioned in Force Unleashed, which was released before you finished this painting

Pretty simple explanation, really! There was a time when Kota didn't know he didn't trust them, right? Had to experience them first-hand to make that call! Besides, nothing's to say the Jedi Order didn't assign him troopers at least once whether he liked it or not. It's someone else's fan story so I could be way off the mark, but it seems like a logical scenario to me! Kota doesn't look all that happy to me!

lol Take it easy, that was established first in Battlefront: Elite, right? That game came out in November 2009...this was done in September of that year. And she wrote the original character well before we did the art trade. So Falon Gray wasn't an established character yet. I wasn't doing the piece over after he was. haha

Come on, man. Do we really need to be like this. I didn't mean to offend you or whatever, I really...REALLY don't understand what the hell you think I was saying in subtext. You can't respectfully disagree because it isn't opinion. I WAS NOT TRYING TO START SOMETHING!

To me, your first comment came off like you were trying to stroke your own ego by "correcting" me after I had obviously put in time and effort into a gift to a friend, just because the illustrated character (and not the cannon one, which again, wasn't even established at the time the illustration was uploaded) wasn't the one featured in the lore today. The illustrated character was part of her own fan cannon (which is in the description). It felt like an entirely unnecessary comment, beyond the fact that said one comment on my artwork had nothing to do with the execution of the art itself. I welcome constructive criticism towards improving my work, but obviously get pretty annoyed if the only negative comments made are for the sake of making the commenter feel big. It really came off like you were dismissing the art in an attempt to flex your Star Wars knowledge.

But if you're honestly telling me you meant no offense by the original comment, then cool. I certainly don't want to perpetuate anything if it isn't necessary either. That said, apologies if I jumped the gun on you. I'm really not the kinda guy to start nonsense, but something about your comment (and then answering back again the other day after it could have long been put to rest if you didn't respond) just completely rubbed me the wrong way. But I digress. Let's just bury the hatchet.

Wow, this is an awesome pic man, i love the lighting and the composition of the pic, and i love how u used the clone wars style and gave it your own twist. and i love how you made the apprentice cut of the aqualish hand, as a little referance to Ponda Baba

Hah, good guess on my part then! Halfway through this, it occured to me that she could've been his apprentice AFTER Starkiller...but I was too into the piece to put it on hold to find out from you! haha

Oh wow. This is amazing beyond words. It looks so much like the Clone Wars art style and the coloring and shading and everything looks like it's pulled right out of a screenshot. I'm seriously not sure what else to say. EXCELLENT job on Kota and 's character. SHE looks amazing in the Clone Wars art style too. Omg.

THIS IS AMAZING and if I could favorite it a billion times over I would. You sir, are an amazing artist. One of the best I've ever seen. One of the most amazing I've seen, I think, especially in such a long while. I'm going to stop rambling and groveling at your feet now.

I don't think they last long on youtube BUT...the official site uploads every episode a week after they premiere! Sooo when the next episode premieres, the previous episode is uploaded to Starwars.com !

And Fett wouldn't be included because he's still so young! It's between Ep 2 and 3! Although I read on theforce.net today that Daniel Logan may be in the live action series they're making in a few years...and he's older now!

Looks cool! I do think that the perspective and the fact that he's stepping out of the scene makes them seem more separate than I'd like, but the sense of action--two types of it, his sneakyness and her slaughter--is done very well, and he just looks badass, with the lightsaber active and shining on him. Both of their armor is really nifty too.

Ahhh, awesomeness! I personally have wanted to see some stories of Kota and whoever his apprentice might have been (if he had one) active during the Clone Wars. This pic is as close as I'll probably get to that for the time being, so kudos for making it a wonderful experience!